Optional 'test' or benchmark cipher

[Chris Rapier]

Ben Lindstrom wrote:


> Hmm.. I believe Markus established a few years ago that the HMAC is more 
> costly in terms of preformance than most of the ciphers.

I'm not sure I'd agree with that. On our test systems hmac-md5 has a 
throughput of 404MB/s on 8KiB data blocks while aes128-cbc has a 
throughput of 120MB/s. If HMAC was as or more expensive than the cipher 
I'd expect to see less lopsided figures.